Guidelines for Global Announcement Topics

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AahaanaGlobal Moderator

Hope
everyone is doing well! We would like to take this opportunity to
notify every one of a few changes that have been made in regards to
Birthday Threads as well as other Global Announcement Topics.

Regarding Birthday Threads

Permissions
- If you want to volunteer to make celebrity birthday threads, please
kindly seek permission from the section Development team or Channel
moderator of that particular channel or the Global moderators before you
start to prepare the thread, maximum 1-3 months in advance and not more than that. Since many want to help out, we suggest
it's done by the actor/actress respective ATs or collectively by the
forum members. If you fail to seek permission before hand, all your
efforts will go in vain and no one is to be blamed.NOTE: A single
member will not be granted permission to be fair to everyone.

Global
Announcement Period - All celebrity's birthday threads will be made
global announcement for ONLY 3 DAYS, after which it will be removed.
Whether it will remain as a sticky in the forum or not will be up to the
section DT post the two day GA period.

Addition of Music Files-
Lately we have been asking members NOT to ADD automatic music files to
the first page on topics that go up as global announcement since it
increases the website load time. Henceforth, please remove any music
files
before requesting any birthday threads to be GAed. If members fail to do
so, the Development Team may refuse to make it a GA or may simply ask
the members to remove the content before GAing it. Note - this is
applicable only to the first page!

Spamming - We understand a lot
of effort and hard work goes into making these birthday threads and
everyone want it to be a successful thread. But please kindly avoid
spamming unnecessarily simply with the intention of increasing the
number of pages. If members continue to spam the thread while the topic
is a GA, the development team may choose to immediately remove it from
GA.

Birthday threads of the members - Development team members'
(Coolbies to Admins) birthday threads will be made as a global
announcement as a token of appreciation for their time and effort
towards maintenance of this forum. Regular members' birthday threads
will be made sticky in the respective forums they are active on. Those
who prepare the regular members' birthday threads are requested to
contact the respective section DTs to have the threads stickied.

Regarding Other Global Announcement Topics

Global announcement
topics - India-Forums Crazy Creative team is responsible for creating
Festive threads (such as Diwali, Christmas, Easter, Eid, Thanks Giving,
Regional Celebrations (Pongal, Sankranti, Ugadi etc)), National Holidays
(such as independence day, republic day). Global Forum Contests, etc.
As such, threads made by the team gets first priority and if anyone
wants to contribute or collaborate, please kindly contact the CC head Angel-Jot or any of the CC team members via PM with a clear subject
title.

Show Anniversary/ Celebratory threads - Only Show
Anniversary, Actors' Birthdays, Characters on screen marriages and
Actors real life marriage celebration will be GAed. Fare-well threads of
shows that go off air will also be made GA, however, we will NO LONGER
GA off airs shows' anniversary, as currently airing shows get the first
priority.

Any important flash news topics can be made GA upon
request, such as nature catastrophe, death announcements of important
personals, sports tournaments such as cricket world cup, IPL, soccer,
sport finals etc.

We will update this thread if more points come across. Hope you all enjoy the remainder of the summer.

illuminated.Viewbie

The rest of the post is for those who are going to criticize these rules being implemented now. This does not mean that certain DT members hate a particular fan base but this was long time coming. The timing of it just a co-incidence.

Although, I do think 2 days is less for a celebrities birthday thread to be GA'd because the members do work hard on that thread. But then there are also times that there are multiple birthday threads and some get ignored. So, this rule is great as well.

Getting a thread up as a GA is not the end of the world, guys. It's just to appreciate the hardwork of the actor. So, take the rules in good spirit instead of criticizing them.

Definitely not moral policing but just trying to say something that was pinpointed in one of my forums.

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